Crossing Bridges symposium 2023 - A Sense of Freedom

Improvisation through time and place
Early Music department and KC Jazz

Keynote speakers:

1. Joris Roelofs, bass clarinettist, composer, PhD candidate - The danger and promise of improvisation
2. James Hewitt, teacher Applied Historical Improvisation Royal Conservatoire - Ricercar: Limitation and Transformation as Creative Process in Solo Improvisation
3. Bert Mooiman, teacher music theory Royal Conservatoire - Which Freedom- Which Music?

Morning:

10.30-11.50

Keynote Joris Roelofs, bass clarinettist, composer, PhD candidate - The danger and promise of improvisation

12.00-12.20

Paper Felix Schlarmann, teacher Jazz drum Royal Conservatoire, Splendor member, researcher - Improvisation - a matter of perception

12.20-12.25

Pitch Cheng Hua, alumna Music Education according to Kodaly, Royal Conservatoire and PhD candidate at Leiden University
- Unpacking Musical Improvisation: Implementation and Evaluation by Primary Music Teachers

12.30-13.00 Musical Intermezzo - Miscelánea

13.00-13.45 break

Afternoon:

13.45-14.15 Musical Intermezzo – Pluvia Collective

14.15-14.45
Keynote James Hewitt, teacher for applied historical improvisation Royal Conservatoire - Ricercar: Limitation and Transformation as Creative Process in Solo Improvisation

14.45-15.15

Keynote Bert Mooiman, teacher for Music Theory Royal Conservatoire, researcher - Which Freedom- Which Music?

15.30-15.50
Paper João Carlos Santos, teacher for Critical Music Studies Royal Conservatoire, researcher in historical practices of musical performance, musical composition and declamation, PhD candidate.
- What Hotteterre didn't tell you, reverse engineering the preludes of l'Art de Preluder

15.50-16.10

Paper Camilo Arias Cuellar, Alumnus Royal Consevatoire, Baroque Violin - Jamming by myself: improvisation in crossover between HIP and Folk

16.15-17.00

Workshop Yvonne Smeets, teacher Jazz vocals Royal Conservatoire - Vocal River explorations;

Work forms from ‘Vocal River; the skill and spirit of improvisation’ of the American improviser Rhiannon. Sound, movement, voice and interaction are the ingredients, everyone is invited to participate.

17.00-18.00 Roundtable Discussion led by Teunis van der Zwart and Bart Suèr

18.00-19.00 break

Evening:

19.00-20.00 Impro lab Studenten Jazz en OM, James Hewitt, Bert Mooiman (instrument?), Tony Overwater

20.00 DRINKS